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StarGazer
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for
the week of Monday,
January 15, 2001.
The Moon Pays A Visit To The Two Inner Planets And How To Watch It
Because Mercury and Venus are inside the Earth’s orbit, they always appear close to the sun in our sky. The red trail shows how far Mercury gets from the sun, while the grey trail marks the orbit of Venus.
January 26 brings a slender crescent moon near Mercury in the early evening. Venus stands higher, outshining everything else in the sky.
By the next night, the moon has grown fatter and moved beneath Venus.
